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<p>[QUOTE="Fid, post: 3053886, member: 7724"]looks as if there were Peugeot ones used as basic for the innards on the last one as well. the gears and grinding unit were for a long time the best all along North Africa and in the French colonies. modification to the housings and adornments aren't unusual. </p><p>as Zanzibar was a big port also for ships from Asia, the last one might be a modified tea container from China.</p><p>they look all around 1910s to 1920s when French merchants also flooded the markets with industrially made tea kettles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Fid, post: 3053886, member: 7724"]looks as if there were Peugeot ones used as basic for the innards on the last one as well. the gears and grinding unit were for a long time the best all along North Africa and in the French colonies. modification to the housings and adornments aren't unusual. as Zanzibar was a big port also for ships from Asia, the last one might be a modified tea container from China. they look all around 1910s to 1920s when French merchants also flooded the markets with industrially made tea kettles.[/QUOTE]
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